Sheriff: Suspected shooter ambushed firefighters who asked him to move vehicle

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Source: Coeur d'Alene Press

COEUR d’ALENE — The man suspected of ambushing firefighters who responded to a blaze he set on Canfield Mountain, fatally shooting two and seriously wounding a third, did so after firefighters asked him to move his vehicle, authorities said Monday.

The first responders who rushed to a grass fire on the east side of Canfield Mountain around 1:30 p.m. Sunday quickly found themselves under attack from a gunman who shot from a tree, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities confirmed Monday that battalion chief John Morrison of the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department and battalion chief Frank Harwood of Kootenai County Fire and Rescue were fatally shot in Sunday’s attack.

Dave Tysdal, an engineer with the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department, was wounded and remains in critical condition.



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Sheriff Bob Norris says that so far no manifesto has been discovered. Right now they have no idea why he did this.

[Joinfortmill]

1. He saved the State the trouble.

They always seem to have to take others out with them.

[C Moon]

2. It gets weirder and weirder.

[Brainfodder]

3. Arson then murder of firemen, going with NUTS! or Revenge!

What else?
OK, he just woke up and felt like it, sorry that falls under NUTS!

[Katcat]

4. Maybe

He set the fire?

[WheelWalker]

8. That is the working hypothesis and allegation

[Maine-i-ac]

5. Illegal Immigrant or MAGA loon? What's the over/under?

I'll put up 3:1

[niyad]

7. HMMMM. . .Mummy and stepdad are magats. . .

[Gimpyknee]

12. As were 67% of the voters in Idaho.

[swong19104]

6. Because he owns a gun

And when all you have is a gun, every problem looks like a target.

[Fil1957]

9. We don't know for sure yet, but odds are, he's a Trumper.

[John1956PA]

10. He was a disturbed twenty-year-old.

I am just guessing, but I do not think he had any definitive political ideology as to conservative versus progressive matters. I do not think he had a political cult mindset devoted to Trumpism. I think he was just a lost twenty-year-old who had been living in his truck for a year and who had a background with firearms courtesy of his parents.

However, the Putin-financed propaganda machine has been going at it since this morning with the lie that he was a violent liberal who rebeled against his loving, wholesome MAGA parents and was radicalized by leftist propaganda. Of course, that lie is ridiculous, but it is the type of lie which the MAGAs eat up and repeat.